“I’m happy for people to agree with the BLM movement… I would just want them to extend the same tolerance to those who want to challenge some aspects of that agenda”.
Interview with Toby Young, talkRadio, 29th June 2020.
Stephen Knight talks to writer and social commentator Toby Young (@ToadMeister). They discuss: Offence Archaeology, social media, Coronavirus and “Lockdown Sceptics”, The Free Speech Union, cancel culture, the failings of the Conservative government and more.
Stephen Knight interviews Toby Young, The Knight Tube, 29th June 2020.
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Feeling that my career was about to implode, I posted the news on Twitter. I received a massive wave of support… including several offers of pro bono help from lawyers and Toby Young’s Free Speech Union (FSU). A lawyer volunteered to represent me at the meeting, with financial backing from the FSU if necessary.
Dr Mike McCulloch, UnHerd, 29th June 2020.
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The physicist plans to take a legal representative into the hearing and has joined the Free Speech Union after founder Toby Young offered to help.
David Scullion, The Critic, 26th June 2020.
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“I would also like to thank the IOM Communications Commission for a thorough and fair report, and the thousands of people who have signed petitions and sent me messages of support. Of particular note is the Free Speech Union who took up my ‘cause’ and provided friendly guidance and practical advice – I would recommend them to anyone who has been told what to think or what to say.”
Martin Robinson, The Daily Mail, 26th June 2020.
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The great 18th century philosopher Edmund Burke, commenting on the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, wrote that “rage and frenzy will tear down in half-an-hour more than prudence, deliberation and foresight can build in a hundred years”.
Inaya Folarin Iman, The Daily Mail, 18th June 2020.
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Stu Peters, the presenter suspended by Manx Radio, is being backed by an organisation set up to support freedom of speech.
IOMToday, 18th June 2020.
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Stuart Peters, 65, has worked for Manx Radio on the Isle of Man for 20 years. He said he understood why protests were happening in the US but not in the UK. The Free Speech Union defended him and started a campaign to reinstate him.
Gary O’Shea, The Mail on Sunday, 14th June 2020.
Toby Young, a prominent and prolific journalist in England, writer for several major daily newspapers and Associate Editor of the Spectator, has founded the Free Speech Union.
Interview with Toby Young, Tichys Einblick, 1st June 2020.
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Thor Holt talks with Toby Young, founder of The Free Speech Union, in a wide-ranging conversation touching on, amongst other things, the importance of free speech.
Thor Holt interviews Toby Young, Thor Holt Presents, 23rd May 2020.
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